About NESC

NESC is a professional engineering support provider, specialising in high hazard and high consequence engineering and people assurance. Principally focussed towards the defence and civil nuclear industries, NESC is a multidisciplinary safety and engineering consultancy, which thrives on tackling engineering challenges head on, deriving logical and cost-effective solutions to complex problems.

Job Description

There is an opportunity for a Human Factors Engineer to join our talented and growing safety department; to play a key role in the delivery of our safety case projects related to new build infrastructure and the development of existing safety cases across the UK.

You will be based in our Plymouth Office at Plymouth Science Park, working as part of a highly professional and dynamic team.

What you will be responsible for

As a Human Factors Engineer at NESC, responsibilities will include:

· Working through our structured training programme with close support from our senior engineers;

· Investigating and analysing characteristics of human behaviour and performance relating to the use of nuclear systems and technologies supporting both defence and civil nuclear sectors;

· Contributing to the delivery of safety case projects by working as part of a nuclear safety team.

At NESC we recognise that everyone has different preferences and strengths. We focus on recruiting the very best people and provide them with opportunities to tailor the role to suit their experience and skills. The above responsibilities are therefore indicative and we encourage our people to take charge of their own development.

Key Skills, Experience & Attitudes

· At least one years’ experience in the application of Human Reliability Analysis.

· Relevant academic qualification in an appropriate field (e.g. ergonomics, psychology, human factors or STEM).

· Flexible, adaptable, innovative and proactive approach to working and finding solutions;

· Ability to work autonomously and closely with others to solve problems;

· Willingness to learn and ability to diversify across multiple projects and disciplines;

· Experience in working in teams and ability to communicate with new groups of people at a variety of professional levels;

· Candidates must be able to satisfy basic eligibility criteria (nationality rules / right to work) and provide appropriate documentation to verify identification, nationality, employment and/or academic history, criminal record (unspent convictions only) as part of the recruitment process.

· Candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain Security Clearance.

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